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Re: conditional aliases are broken


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: conditional aliases are broken
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:59:29 -0600
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On 08/15/2011 04:40 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
* Andreas Schwab<fpujno@yvahk-z68x.bet>  [2011-08-15 22:04:04 +0200]:

Sam Steingold<sds@gnu.org>  writes:

Cool.  Now, what does this imply?

    "For almost every purpose, shell functions are preferred over aliases."

so, how do I write

alias a=b

as a function?
(remember that arguments may contain spaces&c)

a() { b "$@"; }

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